Medieval History
He has Colin Farrell/Keira Knightley/Colin Farrell gangster romance London Boulevard about to hit cinemas, but writer William Monahan has already targeted his next directing job. He?s planning to adapt and shoot a fresh take on Jean Anouilh?s play Becket.
The stage work charts the disintegration of the friendship between King Henry II and Thomas Becket, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until 1170. While the pair initially agreed about the King?s reach with regards to religion in England, their disagreement flared into conflict and Becket was brutally murdered by followers of the monarch.
Click here to read this article from Empire Magazine
- Thomas Becket By John Guy: Review
Few figures in medieval history are as famous as Thomas Becket, and fewer have been subject to such utterly differing interpretations. To pious Englishmen up to the Reformation, he was a miracle-working saint, whose blood (widely available in diluted...
- How Blood And Bones Brought Comfort, Power And Wealth ? A New Book From Yale University Press
Religious relics: a potential ticket to Heaven, a big boom for medieval tourism, and much more besides. ?Steven Russell meets a man who has studied this fascinating phenomenon... Imagine (perish the thought) the Archbishop of Canterbury coming to a violent...
- Medieval News Of The Week
Lampeter archaeologists have discovered a ?lost? Thomas Becket paintings unveiled in Spain Ancient Artifacts Found In Western Kansas...
- Henry Ii, Ivory Liturgical Comb
A liturgical comb, c. 1200, English perhaps Canterbury. Ivory, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carving shows Henry II giving Thomas Becket the archbishopric of Canterbury. The event occurred in Falaise, Normandy, May 1162. On the right it shows the boat ready...
- Death Of St Thomas Of Canterbury - Another Wallpainting
We are back again in the north aisle at South Newington in Oxfordshire, a bit further west of the glorious image of the Virgin and Child we saw in an earlier post. This time we have a panel depicting the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket, who was...
Medieval History
William Monahan Tackling Becket
He has Colin Farrell/Keira Knightley/Colin Farrell gangster romance London Boulevard about to hit cinemas, but writer William Monahan has already targeted his next directing job. He?s planning to adapt and shoot a fresh take on Jean Anouilh?s play Becket.
The stage work charts the disintegration of the friendship between King Henry II and Thomas Becket, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until 1170. While the pair initially agreed about the King?s reach with regards to religion in England, their disagreement flared into conflict and Becket was brutally murdered by followers of the monarch.
Click here to read this article from Empire Magazine
- Thomas Becket By John Guy: Review
Few figures in medieval history are as famous as Thomas Becket, and fewer have been subject to such utterly differing interpretations. To pious Englishmen up to the Reformation, he was a miracle-working saint, whose blood (widely available in diluted...
- How Blood And Bones Brought Comfort, Power And Wealth ? A New Book From Yale University Press
Religious relics: a potential ticket to Heaven, a big boom for medieval tourism, and much more besides. ?Steven Russell meets a man who has studied this fascinating phenomenon... Imagine (perish the thought) the Archbishop of Canterbury coming to a violent...
- Medieval News Of The Week
Lampeter archaeologists have discovered a ?lost? Thomas Becket paintings unveiled in Spain Ancient Artifacts Found In Western Kansas...
- Henry Ii, Ivory Liturgical Comb
A liturgical comb, c. 1200, English perhaps Canterbury. Ivory, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carving shows Henry II giving Thomas Becket the archbishopric of Canterbury. The event occurred in Falaise, Normandy, May 1162. On the right it shows the boat ready...
- Death Of St Thomas Of Canterbury - Another Wallpainting
We are back again in the north aisle at South Newington in Oxfordshire, a bit further west of the glorious image of the Virgin and Child we saw in an earlier post. This time we have a panel depicting the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket, who was...